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19: THE BOSTON GLOBE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1993 Obituaries Gang squad is redeployed after outcry by activists Robert B. James, oil executive and Cohasset moderator; at 88 1 'effective yesterday, most members of the antigang unit "will be re-', turned to their citywide responsibil-! ities, which are concentrated in Rox-: bury, Mattapan and Dorchester, 1 leaving only a small number downtown," Superintendent James M. Claiborne, chief of the Bureau of Field Services, confirmed yesterday. He added that, for the first time, antigang officers will be asked to work after 1 a.m., and will be direct- ed to patrol late-night restaurants where gang activity has been ob- 'i served. According to Rev.

Bruce Wall, co-pastor of the Dorchester Temple Baptist Church and a member of the activists' negotiating team, protes- ters had complained that the anti- gang unit ceased working at 1 even though much gang violence oc- curred from 1 to 3 in the morning. Claiborne explained that assign ing the antigang unit to protect patrons of Boston's shopping districts has been "a long-term practice" dur- ing the holiday season, necessitated by budget constraints. The redeploy- ment was made possible by a state grant of $421,000, which the City Council authorized to be spent for community policing at its meeting Wednesday, he said. By Judith Gaines GLOBE STAFF Under pressure from community activists, the Boston Police Department agreed early yesterday to redeploy more than half of the force's antigang unit from downtown business areas back into the city's low-income neighborhoods, particularly Roxbury, Mattapan and Dorchester. The 12:30 am.

agreement ne gotiated by police Superintendent Joseph C. Carter with members of the Boston Coalition of Crime Pre vention Practitioners and the Neighborhood Justice Network prompt ed anticnme activists to cancel a pro test at Faneuil Hall slated for 1 p.m. yesterday. Demonstrators, accompanied by members of the policemen's union, had planned to dress in black and stand in front of the main marketplace in Faneuil Hall to protest what they considered the department's policy of protecting rich suburbanites shopping downtown instead of residents of crime-ridden low-income areas, according to Marisa Jones, the network's executive director. But according to the agreement, Nancy Roelker, 78 Internationally known scholar Nancy Lyman Roelker, an adjunct professor of European history at Brown University and an internationally known authority on 16th-century France, died last Saturday in her home in East Greenwich, R.I.

She was 78. Miss Roelker was the author of many scholarly books on 16th-century France. Her latest work, "One King, One Faith; the Parliament of Paris and the Reformations of the 16th Century," is scheduled to be published by the University of California Press next year. Miss Roelker was born in East Greenwich, R.I. She earned a bachelor's degree at Radcliffe College and a doctorate from Harvard University.

She began her teaching career at Concord Academy in 1937 and went on to teach at the Winsor School in Boston and Tufts University. She joined the faculty at Boston University in 1965. In 1980, as Boston University professor emerita, Miss Roelker began teaching at Brown University. At the time of her death, she was an adjunct professor at Brown University. Her reputation as a scholar never dampened her enthusiasm for teaching, and she served as an inspiration and mentor to many history students.

At the initiative of her students, in honor of her 75th birthday, the American Historical Association established the Nancy Lyman Roelker Award for compassionate mentoring. She leaves a sister, Helen Roelker Kessler of Cambridge. Burial will be private. A memorial service will be scheduled. New England News Briefs tin.

UNDATED RLE PHOTO ROBERT B. JAMES vey, "so I drove over to the house. I found him on a ladder out back, working on the house. And he said, 'Oh, that was you calling? Every time the phone rang, I'd get down off the ladder, but by the time I got to the telephone there was nobody "He was 88 years old," said Mulvey, "and I wouldn't be surprised if he was splitting wood or playing golf on the last good day of his life." Speaking of Mr. James' decades as town moderator, his daughter remembered him as a very ethical man.

"If he saw something that wasn't right for the town, he wasn't afraid to speak up, even if his opinion wasn't popular. I think of him as Mr. Cohasset. He lived in the town all his life and would not sit by and let something pass that he didn't think was good for the town." Though a college football official for more than two decades, he also officiated the Boston Latin-Boston English high school football game for many years. It was a Thanksgiving morning ritual that became a tradition in the James family.

According to his daughter, up until two weeks ago, Mr. James still attended a college football game every Saturday. "He'd go to West Point, Yale, BC, all over," she said. "He had been a football official for about 25 years and he had a gold pass that let him into the games." "He lived a very, very full life," she added. "He was alert up until the end and he went exactly the way he wanted to go, in his own bed and in his own home." Besides his daughter, who lives in Edina, he leaves a son, Philip M.

of North Haven, a sister, Myra Sherman of Plymouth, N.H.; a brother, Paul, of Scituate; a special friend, Sally Anderson of Cohasset; and two grandchildren. A funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in Second Congregational Church in Cohasset. Burial will be in Woodside Cemetry in Cohasset Harry Ziskind, 83 Clinical laboratory founder Harry Ziskind of Norwood, founder of the Norwood Clinical Laboratory, died Wednesday, apparently of a heart attack, in Norwood Hospital. He was 83.

Mr. Ziskind was born in Lowell. He graduated from Lowell High School and attended Tufts and Syracuse universities. A resident of Norwood for more than 50 years, he was founder and director of the Norwood Clinical Laboratory, which conducts blood testing and other clinical tests for doctors and medical centers. Mr.

Ziskind was a member of the Steuben Masonic Lodge No. 112 of Bath, N.Y., for more than 55 years. He was a charter member of the American Association of Clinical Chemists. He had been a member of Temple Emeth in Brookline. He leaves his wife, Pauline (Schuminsky); two sons, Ross of Gillette, N.J., and David of Marlborough, a sister, Alice Morrison of Amherst, N.Y.; and two grandchildren.

The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in Temple Emeth in Brookline. By Tom Long GLOBE STAFF Robert B. James, the Cohasset town moderator for 29 years and a retired Gulf Oil sales executive, died of pneumonia Thursday in his Cohasset home. He was 88.

Mr. James was Cohasset town moderator from 1939 until 1968. He had been employed by Gulf Oil Corp. for 40 years and retired as its Boston division manager in 1968. He also had been a member of the board of directors of Pilgrim Co-Operative Bank in Cohasset He was born in Cohasset, where he lived all his life.

In addition to being town moderator, he was past president of the Cohasset Historical Society and moderator of the Second Congregational Church. He also was a longtime member of the Konohhas-sett Lodge of Masons. During World War II, he was captain of the Cohasset Auxiliary Police and Shore Patrol. He was an avid football fan and official and had been president of the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Football Officials. He was also a charter member of the National Football Hall of Fame Association.

When Mr. James was not involved in football, he could be found at the Cohasset Golf Club, which he served as president from 1971 to 1974. Yesterday, his daughter, Marcia Carthaus, remembered him as a "man who was very involved with life, a very ethical man, a student of life who was a model of aging for the world." Mr. James often rode his bicycle around town, worked out on an exercise bicycle and rowing machine and busied himself chopping wood in the woodlot behind his house. "He believed in physical fitness," Carthaus said.

"He was very involved in life right up until the end." Yesterday a colleague, Edward Mulvey, president of Pilgrim Co-Operative Bank, recalled an incident a couple of weeks ago, when he tried unsuccessfully to telephone Mr. James for two days. "I became concerned," said Mul- DEATHS VAUGHAN-Of Merrimack, NH, formerly of Burlington, December 2. Dorothy (Moore). Beloved wife of the late Coleman Vaughan.

Mother of Charles of Billerica, Timothy of Litchfield, NH, Thomas of Brookline, JH, Mary Sensing of Louisville, KY Elizabeth Vaughan of Somerville. Loving grandmother of Lisa. Laura, Carol, Jahna, Sarah, Timmy Vaughan, Christopher Sensing. Joshua Jessica Bensing. Also survived by her brother Charles Moore of Seattle, WA, sister Helen Reid of Glen Rock, NJ.

Funeral will be held from the Doyle-Lane Funeral Home. 171 Bedford St (Ftte. 62, on the Bedford line), BURLINGTON, on Tuesday. Dec. 7, at 9 a.m.

Followed by a Funeral Mass in St. Malachy's Church at 10 a.m. Relatives and friends respectfully invited. Visiting hours at the funeral home on Sunday 7-9 p.m. Monday 2-4 p.m.

7-9 p.m. Interment in Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Burlington. WALLACE South Boston, Dec. 2. Edward J.

Beloved father of Edward Joseph Maureen F. O'Connor, Andrea L. Rogers, David flu Rita Martin Lauralie A. and the late Terrenoe J. Wallace.

Survived by his fnrmnr wife AHine D. (Redmond) Wallace and his daughter-in-law Barbara M. (Foley) Wallace. Also survived by 10 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. Funeral from The O'Brien Funeral Home, 146 Dorchester SOUTH BOSTON.

Monday at 8:30 a.m. Funeral Mass at the Marian Manor Chapel. 130 Dorchester South Boston (Old Harbor St. Entrance) at 9:45 a.m. Relatives and friends invited.

Visiting Hours Sunday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Late member of Ironworkers Union Local 7. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Marian Manor at the above mentioned address. Interment, Blue Hill Cemetery, Braintree. WALTER-Anne C.

(Cadish) on December 2, peacefully after a long illness, of Delray Beach, FL, formerly of Stoughton. Loving wife of the late Sauf Walter. Beloved mother of Joseph Harriet Walter of Sharon, Drs. William and Christine Waiter of Vancouver, BC and Carol Walter of New Hartford, CT. Dear sister of Charlotte London of Chestnut Hill, Martha Ross of Chestnut Hill and the late Elizabeth Cohen, Abraham Cadish, Winifred Cohn and Harold Cadish.

Adored grandmother of Barry. Richard. Bradley, cott, Ayla, Brianna and Jenna. Services at Temple Israel, 125 Pond Sharon, on Sunday, December 5 at 10 a.m. Shivah will be observed at the home of Mr.

Mrs. Joseph Walter. 9 Arboro Sharon. In lieu of flowers remembrances in Anne's memory may be made to: Temple Israel of Sharon, 125 Pond Sharon, MA 02067 or to the Old Colony Hospice, 14 Page Terrace, Stoughton, MA 02072. Arrangements by the Brezniak-Rodman Chapel, NEWTON.

WHITMAN-Of Somerville, December 2, Lydia (Bernardi). Beloved wife of the late George. Devoted mother of Rita Whitman and Nancy Sleek both of Somerville, George Whitman of Pepperell, Barbara Borrelli of Rl. Sister of Alma Perrone of Somerville. Also survived by 6 loving grandchildren.

Funeral from the Cataldo Funeral Home, 374 Broadway, SOMERVILLE. Monday at 9 a.m. Funeral Mass in St. Polycarp Church, Temple Somerville at 10 a.m. Visiting hours Sunday only.

2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Donations in her memory may be made to Lawrence Memorial Medford, co Dr. C. D. Taylor.

WILLMANN-Of Belmont, Dec. 1. Janyce (Pickett) Willmann. Wife of the late AlfredW. Wtllmann.

Dear mother of Lyndell Starr Willmann of Belmont. Jeffrey Scott Willmann of Blue Hill. ME, the late Marguerite Fned-berg, Also survived by 5 loving grandchildren. Memorial Services in the Story Chapel at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Dec 20 at 2 o'clock.

In lieu of flowers contributions in her memory to the Mt. Auburn Hospital, 330 Mt. Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02238. would be sincerely appreciated. Arrangements by the Short Williamson Diamond Funeral Home, BELMONT WRONSKI-Of Chelsea on December 2, 1993 William V.

Beloved husband of the late Mary (Urbaniak) Wronski. Devoted father of Richard J. and his wife Carol Ann Wronski of Chelsea, John V. Wronski of FL. Leona and her husband Frank Graboski of H.

Dear brother of the late Anthony, Eddie, Frank, Julian and Charles Wronski and Mary La-pinski. Also survived by 10 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren. Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend the Funeral from the 'Anthony 157 Washington Avenue, CHELSEA on Monday December 6 at 9:00 A.M. followed by a Funeral Mass in St. Stanislaus Church at 10:00 A.M.

Visiting hours will be held at the 'Anthony Memorial" on Sunday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Interment will be at Holy Cross Cemetery Maiden. Should friends desire contributions in his memory may be made to the St. Stanislaus Church Building Fund. CARD OF TE4NKS The Family Of The Late JAMES C.

PROCTOR Of Hyde Park, wish to thank all those who showed their compassion and assistance in our time of need. UNDATED FILE PHOTO CHARLES W. CONNOLLY SR. Charles W. Connolly Retired principal in Lynn; at 71 A funeral Mass will be said today for Charles W.

Connolly retired principal of Lynn Classical High School, who died Wednesday, apparently of a heart attack, in Union Hospital in Lynn. He was 71. Mr. Connolly was born in Lynn. He graduated from St.

Mary's High School in 1940 and Boston College in 1947. He earned a master's degree in education at Boston University and a master's degree in physical science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He also studied engineering at Syracuse University and the University of Illinois. During World War II, he served in the Army infantry in the Rhine-land, Ardennes and central Europe. He taught school in Framingham and Winchendon before joining the Lynn public school system in 1951.

He had been head of the science department at Lynn Classical High School before becoming vice principal and finally principal of the school, a job he held from 1980 until his retirement in 1986. He had also worked for 15 years as a part-time clerk and letter carrier at the Lynn post office. He leaves his wife of 42 years, Alice M. (Conley); a daughter, Patri-, cia A of Woburn; three sons, Peter S. of Needham, Charles Jr.

of Swampscott and Robert J. of Stone- ham; a sister, Mary McQuarrie of Lynn; and two grandchildren. The Mass will be at 10 a.m. in St Pius Church. Burial will be in St Mary's Cemetery, also in Lynn.

Dr. Paul F. Briscoli, 36 UMass psychology professor Dr. Paul F. Briscoli of Ashland, associate professor of psychology and medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, died Nov.

18 of complica tions from AIDS at Metro West Medical Center in Framingham. He was 36. Dr. Briscoli was born in Albany, N.Y. He graduated from Boston University and the Boston University School of Medicine.

While a stu dent at the medical school, he was awarded the John Murray Student Prize for outstanding performance in psychiatry. He was licensed by the state Board of Registration in Medicine in 1988. In 1992, he joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, where he was associate professor of psy chology and medicine and served as staff psychiatrist in the Adult Mental Health Unit. Dr. Briscoli was a member of several professional organizations, including the American Psychiatric Association, the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society and the American Medical Association.

He leaves his father, Carlo, of New York; a sister, Patricia of New. York; and his companion, Warren Goff of Ashland. An informal gathering in his memory will be held from 11 a.m. to noon next Saturday in J.S. Waterman Sons and Eastman-Waring Funeral Home in Boston.

The gathering will be followed by a memorial service at noon. Burial was private. Warren C. Rohmer, 64 Real estate agent in Brookline Warren C. Rohmer, a real estate agent died Tuesday of cancer in his home in Needham.

He was 64. Mr. Rohmer was born in Needham. He graduated from Needham High School and Boston University and had been a member of the Army Reserve. He was a self-employed real estate agent in Brookline.

He leaves his mother, Gertrude I. (Gibson); and two brothers, Francis C. Jr. of Pocasset and Richard B. of Needham.

A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. Tuesday in St Joseph's Church in Needham. Burial will be in Needham Cemetery. before him all of whom were white Anderson, who is black, was denied private legal assistance to fight lawsuits against the police department that named him in his capacity as chief. Weld invites district challenge Gov.

Weld said yesterday he will let the state House and Senate districts devised by Democratic leaders become law today without his signature, but only to speed a minority coalition's legal challenge to the plan. "My feeling is that the matter is going to go to court, and the sooner the better," Weld said about his decision not to veto the redistricting plan, which would have sent the issue back to legislators for several more days. worker dies following accident A track worker for the MBTA who lost both legs when he slipped and fell under the wheels of a work train Thursday morning has died. Milton DeVaughn, 41, of Stoughton, had been checking the tracks over the Anderson Bridge that spans the Neponset River about 2 a.m. when he apparently slipped just as the work train was approaching.

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Lewis Thomas, at 80; author and renowned cancer researcher f-. ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Lewis Thomas, the physician whose ruminations on biology won him acclaim as the "poet laureate of 20th-century medical science," died yesterday of cancer, a disease he spent his life studying and fighting. He was 80. Dr. Thomas, former head of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, suffered from a rare form of cancer named after one of his friends, Jan Waldenstrom of Sweden.

Dr. Thomas won the National Book Award for The Lives of the Cell: Notes of a Biology The collection of essays that had appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine was published in 1974. He won the American Book Award for "The Medusa and the Snail," published in 1979. Dr. Thomas was born and raised in New York City's Queens borough.

He accompanied his father, a surgeon, on house calls, and worked in the infirmary of his summer camp. His resolve wavered at Princeton, where he considered becoming a writer, "only I couldn't figure out what I'd be writing about" That came later. After Harvard Medical School, internships jn Boston and New York, and Navy service in medical research during World War II, Dr. Thomas began a series of medical school appointments at Johns Hop- 1975 AP PHOTO DR. LEWIS THOMAS kins, Tulane, and the University "of Minnesota.

He returned to New York in 1954 as chairman of pathology at New York University-Bellevue Medical Center. In 1972, Dr. Thomas became dean of the Yale Medical School and headed a National Academy of Sciences committee that evaluated a broad new federal cancer program. From 1973 to 1980, Dr. Thomas was president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering, one of the world's leading cancer institutions.

After that, he devoted himself to research at the Cornell Medical School, located in New York City. Dr. Thomas leaves his wife of 52 years, Beryl, and three daughters..